Re: Charges in NAMD topology file

From: Richard Wood (rwoodphd_at_yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Apr 20 2007 - 09:53:08 CDT

Hi all,

Actually, the charge on a given atom is its net + or - number of
electrons that belongs to it; ie, if a carbon atom has a "charge" of
-0.50, that means it has an addition "half" of an electron associated
with it. Remember from freshamn chemistry when you completed the octet
for an oxygen atom as [::O::]-2, signify it had a -2 charge, or two
additional electrons. We generally don't think of these charges as
having units, however. , and if they are involved in any calculations
(which they are) they are accounted for in the correct way by the
software code.

Richard

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University of Minnesota
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----- Original Message ----
From: Jawahar Neelankatan <neelankatan_j_at_yahoo.com>
To: JC Gumbart <gumbart_at_ks.uiuc.edu>
Cc: namd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 8:10:59 AM
Subject: Re: namd-l: Charges in NAMD topology file

Thanks for the info.

JC Gumbart <gumbart_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote: unit electron charge (i.e. 1 = 1.6x10^-19 coulombs)
On Apr 19, 2007, at 4:51 PM, Jawahar Neelankatan wrote:

Hi all,
In the CHARMM22 proteins/CHARMM27 lipids topology file for NAMD, what are the units of the charges listed for atoms of various residues ? Coulombs ?

-Jawahar
        

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